The many roads to essential genes

Tuberculosis

Volumn 88, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Wei, Jun Rong ^a   Rubin, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential genes; Mycobacterium; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDASE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CAPROLACTAM; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ENZYME; PROTEIN KINASE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CROSSING OVER; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG TARGETING; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 50349093522     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-9792(08)70033-7     Document Type: Article

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